Labor & Employment Law

Beware: Job Killer Candidates Lurk in Ohio

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Andy Richards, AFL-CIO Field Communications assistant in Ohio, sends us this report.

Beware of the Ohio Job Killers lurking among us. Outsourcing our jobs have been their agenda for years. And now, they are asking voters to disregard their job-killing record and put them in charge of some of Ohio?s most important political positions. Who are these job killers?

Job Killer #1: John Kasich: “If it?s in the Yellow Pages, outsource it.” This is the mantra of gubernatorial candidate and former Lehman Brothers executive John Kasich. But it doesn?t end there. There is no doubt John Kasich interests lie with Wall Street. Kasich worked for years as a managing director at Lehman Brothers, one of the Wall Street firms that helped create the economic crisis that caused the loss of tens of thousands of jobs in Ohio.

During his time there, he helped to move Ohio pension fund investments to Lehman Brothers. Lehman went bankrupt in 2008 and, as a result, the Ohio pension fund lost hundreds of millions of dollars. For his work at Lehman, Kasich was paid more than $1 million in salary and bonuses in 2008 alone. Click here for videos on Kasich’s job-killing record.

Job Killer #2: Rob Portman. Like Kasich, Senate candidate Rob Portman voted for NAFTA and other trade deals that killed Ohio jobs. Portman continued to support trade agreements in his role as Trade Czar for President George W. Bush, that outsourced Ohio jobs overseas. Along with Kasich, Portman also supported tax breaks for companies that moved jobs out of Ohio. Click here for a video on Portman’s job-killing record.

Job Killer #3: Mike DeWine. Republican Attorney General candidate and former U.S. Sen. Mike DeWine called NAFTA, which killed tens of thousands of Ohio jobs, a “big success.” DeWine, Portman and Kasich also supported trade “normalization” with China, with the result that more than 90,000 jobs were outsourced from our state. He voted for tax breaks for corporations that shipped jobs overseas and put Wall Street before Ohioans by opposing regulations on predatory lending. Click here for a video on DeWine’s ties to Wall Street.

Luckily, we have candidates who are working family champions, like Gov. Ted Strickland, Lee Fisher and Richard Cordray. Together with these labor-endorsed candidates, we can keep the job killers at bay and fight to save and create jobs in Ohio. Click here now to stop the job killers and support our working family champions.

Full post as published by AFL-CIO NOW BLOG on September 13, 2010 (boomark / email).